164 LIFE OF DA VI D LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



11 Dr. Livingstone has left Loanda to return with his party to Sekeletu, 

 with a present of trade goods for that worthy chief from the Portuguese mer- 

 chants. From thence it was the traveller's intention to follow the Leeambye, 

 in the expectation of reaching Killimane on the West coast, where he hoped 

 to find some means of returning to England, and begged that inquiries might 

 be made for him by one of H.M.'s ships on the station. 



"In connection with Dr. Livingstone's adventures, a communication has 

 just been received by the London Missionary Society from his father-in-law, 

 the veteran missionary Robert Moffat, who is stationed at Kuruman, and has 

 spent nearly forty years in South Africa. Finding that letters and parcels 

 which had been transmitted for Livingstone through a native chief had been 

 detained, Dr. Moffat started from Kuruman with supplies for his brave son-in- 

 law in June, 1854, accompanied by two traders, Messrs. Chapman and 

 Edwards. This journey occupied seven months, and it is alone of great 

 interest, relating to a beautiful, wooded, and well-watered country, occupied 

 by a very powerful chief and warlike people. The dominions of this ruler, 

 named Moselekatse, extend from the river Zambesi southwards, over an 

 immense territory, to the river Limpopo, and eastwards towards the river 

 Shash, a tributary of the Limpopo. It is inhabited by Matabele, or Zulus 

 of the original stock, and by several other tribes, including the Bakone on 

 the South, the Mashona on the North, the Batonga, &c. The town of Matlo- 

 kotloko in the Mashona country, where Moselekatse was residing, is ten days 

 to the southward of the Zambesi river. The Mashona speak the language of 

 the Makalaka, a dialect of the Sichuana, which was reduced to a written form 

 by Dr. Moffat, who has also translated and printed the Bible in that widely- 

 spread tongue. Dr. Moffat succeeded in forwarding the supplies for Dr. 

 Livingstone to his friend Sekeletu at Linyanti. He learned that the traveller 

 was still on his journey to the West coast, and was expected to return when 

 the summer rains commenced. Dr. Moffat established the most friendly 

 relations with Moselekatse, who could scarcely be persuaded to part with him, 

 and at last gave him an escort and supplies for the entire journey to Kuruman. 

 Further accounts of this interesting journey will, we hope, be made known 

 from Dr. Moffat's journals. " 



The Senatus Academicus of Glasgow University — Livingstone's Alma 

 Mater — unanimously conferred upon him the degree of M.D. immediately 

 after the receipt of the intelligence of his arrival at Loanda had reached this 

 country. 



The Portuguese would appear to have been more successful m their 

 colonising efforts on the west coast of Africa than they have been on the east 

 coast, as we shall see when we follow Dr. Livingstone to the mouth of the 

 Zambesi. The following is his account of Angola : — 



" The province of Angola possesses great fertility and beauty, and its 



